Substantiation
...reporter stares into his cataracted, cotton eyes. He cannot find them, no matter where he looks. * The sheriff says this man's killer is on the loose and a killer...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...different imperial pressures, call upon us to shift our framework for studying the history of knowledge in early America in several ways. First and foremost, these case studies demand a...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...Texas's sanction of the attack, the state's adjutant general James Harley asked for the resignation of the Ranger captain responsible for the massacre and discharged all officers involved. Although an...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...notes the music’s unique sound, the core practices of a communal meal, and forgoing of “contentious discussion of politics and denominational religion” (3). The book moves rapidly from the general...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...and mothers were characteristic of Black households. But there was no tolerance for women pursuing artistic careers away from home and family. Alonzo Herndon, atypical for the men of his...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
...brief history of Andersonville Prison and the Battle of Petersburg Part 5: Wood suggests theories for the diverging sets of planks in the lower portion of Homer’s painting Part 6: Wood ponders...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Lancaster County, South Carolina. This account stresses several years of physical and mental decline and, underlying it, a temperament vulnerable to depression. This tendency is reported also in several other...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...insists, it was not the River Jordan (69). Along with a multifaceted explanation of these complications, Salafia also offers a provocative meditation on the meanings of southern spaces, both physical...